时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)


英语课
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will call for early elections in 2009 if reconciliation 1 talks do not succeed between rival Palestinian factions 3. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Jerusalem.
 






Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (File)



The split between Mahmoud Abbas' moderate Fatah group and the militant 4 Hamas faction 2 has virtually paralyzed the Palestinians' political system.

President Abbas addressed leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Organization meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Mr. Abbas said his faction wants dialogue and will do its best to keep the talks going. But he said that if that dialogue does not succeed, he will - at the beginning of next year - call for presidential and parliamentary elections.

The Palestinian leader, whose term technically 5 ends on January 9, has previously 6 threatened to call early elections if there is no deal between his group and Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since winning elections in 2006.

Hamas rejected Abbas' calls.

The group boycotted 7 a meeting that was planned for earlier this month by Egypt, which is mediating 8 reconciliation talks between the two Palestinian factions.

It is not clear how new elections would be conducted, since Abbas' Fatah governs only the West Bank, while the Gaza Strip has been under the firm control of Hamas.

The split has undermined the Palestinian Authority's peace efforts with the Israelis, who view Abbas as a moderate with whom they can negotiate. Israel rejects Hamas because it refuses to renounce 9 violence and does not recognize the Jewish state's right to exist.

Some in Israel oppose early elections in the Palestinian territories out of concern that Hamas might win any new poll.

An Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, published details of a defense 10 paper to be presented next month, recommending that Israel prevent elections in the Palestinian territories.

The document warns that the disappearance 11 of Mahmoud Abbas from the Palestinian political scene might cause the Palestinian Authority to collapse, killing 13 prospects 14 for a two-state solution.



n.和解,和谐,一致
  • He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
  • Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。
n.宗派,小集团;派别;派系斗争
  • Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
  • I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境,在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
adv.专门地,技术上地
  • Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说,这是最先进的设备。
  • The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说,西红柿是一种水果,尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
抵制,拒绝参加( boycott的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Athletes from several countries boycotted the Olympic Games. 有好几国的运动员抵制奥林匹克运动会。
  • The opposition party earlier boycotted the Diet agenda, demanding Miyaji's resignation. 反对党曾杯葛国会议程,要宫路下台。
调停,调解,斡旋( mediate的现在分词 ); 居间促成; 影响…的发生; 使…可能发生
  • So many factors are mediating. 如此众多的因素在起作用。
  • The contrast in mediating noted in the sitting room. 客厅中注重了调和中的对比。
v.放弃;拒绝承认,宣布与…断绝关系
  • She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent.她决定弃绝尘世去当修女。
  • It was painful for him to renounce his son.宣布与儿子脱离关系对他来说是很痛苦的。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
学英语单词
abdominal surgery instruments
actual element
advance-decline line
an external angle
backward chaining
bankone
bartlett pears
birch bolete
Bond albedo
Bursa infrahyoidea
by file type
caper
car-mounted microphone
casokefamide
cataclysmic separation theory
cellular fusion
chicken tacoes
chloramine treatment
cholemias
clasmatocytic
cognitive neuropsychology
cold settler
congressane
core jarring machine
cumulative total
czechoslovakias
declass
disinures
distributed message switching
double-normal solution
eborine
egg inoculation
Engel-Recklinghausen disease
episcopies
Euglenoidea
fag oneself to death
Ficoill
fire into
flow-through colorimeter
food futurist
gauze bandages
grain of meat
Hume's
hydraulic bottom-hole pump
hypersyn motor
inspiraled
ironweed
Kiamba
kw-hr
laser-Doppler-velocimetry
learning element
limiting the growth of the money supply
llgamenta apicis dentis
MACDefender
mandrels for pipe bending
maneuver
match-makers
mobile shower bath
MRAMs
naval petroleum reserves
niggery
nonflatulent
Ordiflazine
oxygenated
oystre
pantethine
parlor cars
peep-show
pharyngeal nerve
phonographists
plapp
Protonontronite
quickly drying paint
radiocarbon concentration
RAS API
red-handed
rock wreath
roentgen-
rope conveyer
screwier
seatage
Sidney Poitier
single heading flight
single side floppy disc
spiritual desertion
squaring tool
statistic of random processes
stratified one-stage cluster sampling
striga
strip someone to the skin
sun-rays
surseances
tetramethyl leucaniline
theddy
tintinnabulate
unstilled
venlin
viroplasmin
virtual private wire service
wall-drilling machine
wash trade
whorl(W)